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Summer has a demonstrated track-record of winning the confidence of clients and being entrusted with complex and sensitive business mandates from a wide-range of significant clients, including Shopify, Toronto Hydro, ApplyBoard, McKinsey & Co.

She has an industry focus in the emerging and high growth companies’ sector and has established herself as one of the country’s leading employment lawyers at the associate level in this space, having gained extensive experience as a trusted advisor to several high-profile Canadian and international technology companies, such as 1Password, Stripe, Waabi, Deep Genomics, Borrowell, Wealthsimple, New Relic, and Achievers.

Known for her exceptional client service abilities and aptitude for negotiating successful outcomes for her clients, Summer routinely assists clients on a variety of employment law matters, including advising on sensitive executive and founder disputes, high-profile executive employment offers, and financing transactions; negotiating settlements in respect of contentious employee terminations; and providing day-to-day HR risk mitigation advice and strategies.

Summer has appeared before, and obtained favourable judgments from, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List), and she has also represented multiple clients in collective bargaining as lead negotiator against the largest private sector union in Canada.

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Summer Danakas is an associate based in Osler's Toronto office. She advises employers on matters including executive compensation and wrongful dismissal claims.

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